DRM on Chromecast

[sujanmk]

Does any of you know how DRM works on Chromecast?
Is it integrated on the receiver app?

 

[mavrrick]

I think DRM is a mute point. The CC was designed to get content from the provider like netflix and google. Because it is streaming directly from the provider no need for it. Now as far as local content i would expect it to work with DRM free content. Content we have on our local device should be personal videos and not DRM'd content.

I know that isn't exactly true though, but I suspect that is the concept behind it.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I'd guess it's handled by the transmitting app, I've definitely seen a "this video cannot be cast to your TV" pop-up in YouTube. Also,

I think DRM is a mute point. The CC was designed to get content from the provider like netflix and google. Because it is streaming directly from the provider no need for it. Now as far as local content i would expect it to work with DRM free content. Content we have on our local device should be personal videos and not DRM'd content.

I know that isn't exactly true though, but I suspect that is the concept behind it.

It's a moot point, not a mute point. Sorry, it's a pet peeve, no offence intended.

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[mavrrick]

No worries. Hopefully I get it right next time.

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[sujanmk]

Are you trying to say that Netflix is not encrypting the content? I dont think so....

 

[mavrrick]

Are you trying to say that Netflix is not encrypting the content? I dont think so....

I never said it wasn't encrypted. What I said is that it is a moot point because content that would need DRM should be coming from the content provider like Netflix and Vudo to the CC and not from your local device. DRM isn't really for them, it is for us end users. They probably have their own proprietary encryption and video format that decodes the stream. But that isn't DRM, that is just protecting data they distribute.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I never said it wasn't encrypted. What I said is that it is a moot point because content that would need DRM should be coming from the content provider like Netflix and Vudo to the CC and not from your local device. DRM isn't really for them, it is for us end users. They probably have their own proprietary encryption and video format that decodes the stream. But that isn't DRM, that is just protecting data they distribute.

Exactly, it's quite possible the stream is encrypted, but any DRM check would be done by your phone or tablet before the stream URL is sent to chromecast.

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[gidgiddonihah]

It's a moot point, not a mute point. Sorry, it's a pet peeve, no offence intended.

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Offense*

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[mavrrick]

Lol

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[fuzzylumpkin]

Offense*

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You'll be an American I take it. Offence is the British English spelling. Although both are considered correct, we created the language, ours is right! bloody colonials lol

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[gidgiddonihah]

You'll be an American I take it. Offence is the British English spelling. Although both are considered correct, we created the language, ours is right! bloody colonials lol

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I suspected as much! American is always best. Ergo the correct spelling is 'offense' .

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[Devlyn16]

You'll be an American I take it. Offence is the British English spelling. Although both are considered correct, we created the language, ours is right! bloody colonials lol

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If that were the case we are all speaking and spelling everything wrong, just read the original Beowulf:

1-21
HW?T, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum,
?eodcyninga ?rym gefrunon,
hu ?a ??elingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing scea?ena ?reatum,
monegum m?g?um meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, sy??an?rest wear?
feasceaft funden; he ??s frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weor?myndum ?ah,
o? ??t him ?ghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; ??t w?s god cyning!
??m eafera w?s ?fter cenned
geong in geardum, ?one God sende
folce to frofre; fyren?earfe ongeat,
?e hie ?r drugon aldorlease
lange hwile; him ??s Liffrea,
wuldres Wealdend woroldare forgeaf,
Beowulf w?s breme --- bl?d wide sprang---
Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean,
fromum feohgiftumon f?der bearme,

22-46
??t hine on ylde eft gewunigen
wilgesi?as, ?onne wig cume,
leode gel?sten; lofd?dum sceal
in m?g?a gehw?re man ge?eon.
Him ?a Scyld gewat to gesc?phwile
felahror feran on Frean w?re;
hi hyne ?a ?tb?ron to brimes faro?e,
sw?se gesi?as, swa he selfa b?d,
?endenwordum weold wine Scyldinga---
leof landfruma lange ahte.
??r ?t hy?e stod hringedstefna
isig ond utfus, ??elingesf?r;
aledon ?a leofne ?eoden,
beaga bryttan on bearm scipes,
m?rne be m?ste. ??r w?s madma fela
of feorwegum fr?twa gel?ded;
ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan
hildew?pnum ond hea?ow?dum,
billum ond byrnum;him on bearme l?g
madma m?nigo, ?a him mid scoldon
on flodes ?ht feor gewitan.
Nal?s hi hine l?ssan lacum teodan,
?eodgestreonum, ?on ?a dydon,
?e hine ?t frumsceafte for? onsendon
?nne ofer y?e umborwesende.